sisutag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-169662014-12-08T18:53:46-05:00Beauty in unexpected placesTypePadWho's afraid of Virginia Postrel?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b8d0a49a27970c2014-12-08T18:53:46-05:002014-12-09T07:33:21-05:00We can see the salt of the earth from our front porch in Chelsea-by-the-Sea. Here we thought it was a brilliant, pithy (140-or-fewer characters) philosophical insight into the way of the world, but intellectual icon Virginia Postrel was not amused...Sissy WillisThe end of an eratag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201b8d0694827970c2014-09-13T10:15:58-04:002015-03-02T16:43:22-05:00Goomp left this mortal coil yesterday afternoon. We three siblings knew the time was near. He'd withdrawn of late, unable to hear much of anything, not even asking about the cats last time our sis visited him at the "home"...Sissy WillisChuck Todd "didn't like having Mozart associated with the Nazis"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201a73dd424ae970d2014-06-07T16:04:29-04:002014-08-22T20:29:49-04:00"Let me, let me free-ee-eeze again to death." 17th-century British composer Henry Purcell's rending-of-garments "The Cold Scene" from "King Arthur" energizes dancers' evocative kinetics (above) expressing the storming of the beaches of Normandy during controversial D-Day70 commemoration presentation yesterday at...Sissy WillisHis major coup "was getting women to smoke"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201a3fcb7d302970b2014-02-08T15:26:56-05:002014-09-02T08:12:03-04:00"With no phone to call for help, I used my bobsled push training to break out," quipped Olympian Johnny Quinn this morning, adding his voice to the latest Twitter trending topic, #SochiProblems. We love Quinn's All-American, can-do (pun intended) solution...Sissy WillisYale law professor prefers not to be confused with the factstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2019b001ff0d2970d2013-10-18T16:39:40-04:002014-10-16T08:21:40-04:00"There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?" we quoted Schopenhaer a few years back on "the...Sissy Willis"Are these jerks trying to hurt us on purpose?"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2019affbb7aa7970c2013-10-02T11:06:18-04:002013-10-02T12:29:28-04:00People, I am not making this up pic.twitter.com/sYFQsxqEEr — John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) October 2, 2013 "Because of the federal government shutdown, this National Park Service area is closed, except for 1st Amendment activities," reads the sign on a single barricade...Sissy WillisArmed and dangerous ...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e201901e223b6b970b2013-07-05T09:32:38-04:002013-07-05T09:32:38-04:00"Let Facts be submitted to a candid world," from the archives July 4, 2008.Sissy WillisStand with Rand: Tea Party Turks and the filibuster heard 'round the worldtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2017d419c33f7970c2013-03-08T11:25:33-05:002013-03-08T15:07:58-05:00"My Tea Party cup runneth over," we twittered Mark Tapscott this morning in appreciation of his bracing filibuster post "Is Rand Paul America's William Wallace or Robert the Bruce?" wherein the DC Examiner columnist compares the generational struggle between Young...Sissy WillisLittle Kitteh in Toylandtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2017ee6936731970d2012-12-23T19:54:21-05:002012-12-23T20:15:33-05:00The kitteh was nestled all snug and well fed … While visions of ornaments danced in her head.Sissy WillisCon-Man-in-Chief: Barack Obama's "masterful marketing of emotions"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834518c7969e2017c33432d8b970b2012-11-09T13:24:32-05:002012-11-11T10:51:31-05:00"Stephen Colbert sent me an email, and Stephen Colbert is the young person's Oprah," the sophomorically witty young Obama voter above right — signalling membership in the tribe of cool! — answered The Blaze reporter Benny Johnson's question "What issues...Sissy Willis